Where to live in London with kids and office commute

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RichaChaubey · 27/08/2024 17:56

Hi,

My DD is 3 and DS is in Year 1 in Cheam Park Farm,Sutton. Me and my DH both commute to office 3 days a week to blackfriars from sutton.Its a 20 min walk to school and then 20 min back to station. We moved here for Grammar school but now all of this commute is killing us. We thought to move to Tooting or Streatham which would our commute to half but it would be far from Grammar schools. Our budget is 750K and with this budget we are getting 5 bed semi of 1482 sq.ft.just 5 minute walk from west sutton. Any suggestions if we should move there or think about commute to office as well. Other reason is that when we drop kids to school and nursery, we get to office by 10 A.M. and then we need to leave by 4 to pick them up.I pick my DD and my DH pick our DS.

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Nuggetnuggety · 28/08/2024 22:27

Streatham is also one of the areas predicted to be worst affected by the falling school rolls which isn’t a good thing & will have a wider impact due to the current funding model. Granted the people buying the 1.5m plus houses on the Balham cusp will be going private!

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RichaChaubey · 03/09/2024 20:45

Tiswa · 28/08/2024 22:15

i live near you and I think you would be mad to move given that in a year yiu will have both at the same school therefore making life an awful lot easier

high schools are excellent and I have one in and one not in grammar .

house prices in Streatham are insane (we are in the process of selling DH Fathers house which is rundown 4 bed 1 bathroom small amount of outdoor space for 200k more than your budget

you only have a year left before it gets easier

Thanks! Your reply gave me a lot of confidence. Can you please share which area or street to target in Sutton?

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